Fairfield County’s Giving Day harvests $1.7M for final fundraising event

Fairfield County”™s Community Foundation (FCCF) generated more than $1.7 million in donations to local nonprofits in its tenth annual and final iteration of the 24-hour Giving Day fundraising event.

The Feb. 23 event attracted nearly 14,600 individual donations supporting 361 Fairfield County nonprofits. This year’s total rounds out a decade of inspired giving, raising $15.46 million for Fairfield County charities since its inception in 2014.

“We are truly humbled by our county”™s 10-year track record of tremendous support for Fairfield County”™s Giving Day,” said FCCF President and CEO Mendi Blue Paca. “This year”™s participation really put the exclamation point on our final Giving Day. Over the next year, the Foundation will continue to work with our partners to roll out a range of initiatives aimed at building even deeper relationships and providing more timely support to our region”™s nonprofits. In the meantime, we want to thank every person and business that made a decade of inspired giving possible ”“ we could not be more excited by the possibilities of what”™s to come as we build upon this impactful track record.”